Maladapting Minds

Maladapting Minds discusses a number of reasons why philosophers of psychiatry should take an interest in evolutionary explanations of mental disorders and, more generally, in evolutionary thinking. First of all, there is the nascent field of evolutionary psychiatry. Unlike other psychiatrists, evolutionary psychiatrists engage with ultimate, rather than proximate, questions about mental illnesses. Being a young and youthful new discipline, evolutionary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199558663
• ISBN13: 9780199558667
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"